Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:54:25 -0500 (EST) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init runs with console as control terminal? Message-ID: <199911191754.MAA16006@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> Bug the authors to fix it? daemon(3) is provided for a reason! > > Here's my version of a simple daemonizing program.... Neither > TIOCNOTTY nor setpgid() is sufficient to detach from a terminal > session in a POSIX environment; setsid() is required. daemon(3) does > a nice job of encapsulating this along with the other more obvious > prerequisites. > Time for a daemon(1)? I'd like to have a more flexible approach towards closing of stdin/out/err, maybe something similar to what Matt did, or similar to nohup: close it iff it's a tty. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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